Here are a few lowlights of the AHCA Congressional Budget Office score. I’ll try to keep this non-technical.
- Medicaid is still getting changed from an entitlement that is responsive to changing needs to a block grant
- 23 million people will lose coverage compared to current law projections
- The MacArthur/Upton waivers are expected to destroy the individual markets that cover 15% of the country
- Most of the premium decreases are due to older and sicker people being priced out of the market
- Real easy to have low premiums when you don’t cover anyone who is likely to need services
- Pre-existing condition protection is effectively destroyed by splitting the risk pool.
Please note that 51M uninsured by 2026 is 7M worse than before Obamacare went into effect. It's not even back to what we had. #CBOSCORE
— Everett M (@EverettMaroon) May 24, 2017
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